At the beginning of last year I chanced upon the loveliest record, at the time you need it most. In January. The cover depicted a spellbound and very young and very pretty brunette trapped in the light of the camera lensi n front of an arresting backdrop of pink balloon wallpaper.
It was Thanks For That by Steph Green and I liked it. A lot. It was full of lovelorn and wide eyed tales of the Old South and The Old West narrated from New Orleans where the artist was based.
They were songs with an intense and impressive grip and understanding of the past. Audrey Hepburn's Lula Mae reborn and set loose in a briar patch, with only her acoustic guitar for company.
Steph's back now with her second album Lore. It's great to see promise realised to the degree it is here. Lore is short and sweet. Eight songs clocking in at just short of half an hour. Not a dud among them.
Recorded at home on a 16 track reel to reel, this is an album that uderstands old fashioned values and old fashoined recipes. It serves them up just as you remember them.
True romance, Songwriting gift and no little flair. Hope Sandoval would doubtless approve as Steph has a similar mysterious wonder in terms of everything she sets out to accomplish. A pearl.
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